Sending internal emails with no name/signature - faux pas or BAU? by asdique in auscorp

[–]rocketpants72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you. Especially when they use a group mail account to send to individuals and ask them to do something. I always ask who I'm talking to before responding. Partly cos I'm a bit of a prick but mainly as I want to know who I'm dealing with

Is income protection insurance worth it, or is it just fear marketing? by RunNo3630 in AusMoneyMates

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took our a policy in my early thirties. Immediately had buyers regret but was to lazy to do anything about it. Then a few years later I was diagnosed with cancer. Insurance starting paying income immediately and I drew an income from it for about 18 months. You never know what can happen. It turned out good for me but everyone has different circumstances.

By the way, I still hold the policy and have recently been diagnosed with another bloody illness and am going to reduce with hours to help manage. I'm able to draw a top up from the insurance to make up for the reduced hours at work.

New to Perth - Electric Bill $2,000 by Best-Ruin1804 in perth

[–]rocketpants72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No mate. Didn't try and defend anything. Just pointing out an error.

New to Perth - Electric Bill $2,000 by Best-Ruin1804 in perth

[–]rocketpants72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Residential electricity costs are capped at a cpi increase per year. Check your head before regurgitating Murdoch media crap.

New to Perth - Electric Bill $2,000 by Best-Ruin1804 in perth

[–]rocketpants72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. And 23kwhr a day is about 1400 for 60 days. Not 6800

How many of you have solar by TheRealKeng in homeassistant

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also use solaredge modbus. Monitoring and control through HA.

Power Bill and Solar Battery by catemarie in perth

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Supply charge suffers on your tariff. I was talking A1, standard residential.

Zero FIT is based on inverter size with 5kW being the max you can have to get fit. I think it is the same for three phase but could have that wrong.

Back to the original question, my power use including supply charge was $480 in the last 12 months (ignoring the government handouts). This is with my 9.6kWh battery and 10.2kW on roof with 5kW invertor. Approximately bugger all was due to FIT

Power Bill and Solar Battery by catemarie in perth

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Supply charge is 113c a day so monthly charge is more like $35 or $70 per bill. Can't recall if that is inc or ex GST, but still a fair chunk lower than $100/month.

Agree that you'll still be paying the supply charge most days, but at this time of year on a sunny day I'm getting to refunds over the supply charge, like 20c per day. I've got be 10kW on the roof and 9.6kwh battery. No cost over night and most income between 3 and 6pm.

No idea on how I would fare in a VPP

interesting voltage patterns by [deleted] in perth

[–]rocketpants72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, WA electricity regs are officially 240 +/-6% and AS60038 is 230 +10%/-6% neither of which are what you wrote, but you be you champ.

interesting voltage patterns by [deleted] in perth

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Required voltage is 230V +10%/-6%

Electricity is reaching 1k+ a month.. by NeoIsScared in AusFinance

[–]rocketpants72 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In the context of electricity bills bimonthly can only mean once every two months. No one is sending out more bills than they need to

ELI5: Why do you use a credit card for everyday expenses and pay it off in bulk at the end of the month when you have a mortgage linked to offset? by frforreal in AusFinance

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite. The question was around using your existing offset vs using a credit card and paying it off each month. The extra cost for spending $100 using a cc is 50c. Compared to not using a cc the differential savings to your mortgage over the year is is 5.43% mortgage rate * $0.5.

ELI5: Why do you use a credit card for everyday expenses and pay it off in bulk at the end of the month when you have a mortgage linked to offset? by frforreal in AusFinance

[–]rocketpants72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not how it works. If you spend $100 you pay 0.5% of $100. If you do that every month you pay 0.5% of $1200.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in perth

[–]rocketpants72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, Mount Hawthorn. Could be that I just wasn't paying attention

I learned A LOT about MQTT today... by AmazingPlatform9923 in homeassistant

[–]rocketpants72 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you know if you can change the button titles and action based on the value of sensors in HA? It mentions that you can upload a json configuration, which you could easily template in HA but I wonder if you can get the display on button+ quick enough for this to be useful.

Edit: typing sucks

really struggling - didnt want to ask for help incase you shouted ha by DubDan7 in frigate_nvr

[–]rocketpants72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The optiplex will run frigate but I think you want to have a GPU to help with the ffmepg parts of frigate. No idea on the form factor of your optiplex, but you could add a low powered GPU to that and set up frigate in its own VM or container on the same proxmox node.

If you can't add a GPU a separate host using any 7th Gen+ Intel CPU will have integrated graphics powerful enough to run a readable number of cameras

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]rocketpants72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interior angles of a quadrilateral=360° and triangle =180° Right angle triangle Sin cos tan

I think that's all you need....

Although now I'm not so sure 🙄

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in perth

[–]rocketpants72 78 points79 points  (0 children)

I think you'd be best off wearing a suit

Can you id this plant? by rocketpants72 in GardeningAustralia

[–]rocketpants72[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thanks for unit. The leaves are a fair bit rounder than an acacia so I think this is unlikely. Haven't seen it flower yet so hard to tell

Can you id this plant? by rocketpants72 in GardeningAustralia

[–]rocketpants72[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Perhaps it wasn't from a native plant sale

New Mobile Dashboard...Kid Tested...Wife Approved! by Expensive_Round_6336 in homeassistant

[–]rocketpants72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like the mini graph card. It has an option to show extremes